Dark Water (2002 film)

Dark Water
Theatrical release poster
Directed byHideo Nakata
Screenplay by
Based on"Floating Water"
by Koji Suzuki
Produced byTakashige Ichise
Starring
CinematographyJunichiro Hayashi
Edited byKatsumi Nakazawa
Music byKenji Kawai
Production
companies
Distributed byToho
Release date
  • January 19, 2002 (2002-01-19)
Running time
101 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Box office$1.4 million

Dark Water is a 2002 Japanese supernatural horror film directed by Hideo Nakata and written by Yoshihiro Nakamura and Kenichi Suzuki. An adaptation of the 1996 short story "Floating Water" by Koji Suzuki, it follows a divorced mother (Hitomi Kuroki) who moves into a rundown apartment with her six-year-old daughter (Rio Kanno) and experiences supernatural occurrences linked to a constant leak of water from the apartment above.

The film received positive reviews and grossed $1.4 million at the box office. An American remake, directed by Walter Salles and starring Jennifer Connelly and Tim Roth, was released in 2005.